Response 3538961

Response to request for information

Reference

3538961

Response date

30 July 2024

Request

1. Your total spending on temporary accommodation for homeless households in the financial year 2022/23. Please advise how much of this spending was funded by central Government (for instance via the Homelessness Prevention Grant) and what, if any, was the net cost to you (to be funded by the Council Tax.)

2. Your total spending on temporary accommodation for homeless households in the financial year 2023/24. Please advise how much of this spending was funded by central Government (for instance via the Homelessness Prevention Grant) and what, if any, was the net cost to you (to be funded by the Council Tax.)

3. Your total spending on hotels as temporary accommodation for homeless households in the financial year 2022/23.

4. Your total spending on hotels as temporary accommodation for homeless households in the financial year 2023/24.

Response

1. Your total spending on temporary accommodation for homeless households in the financial year 2022/23. Please advise how much of this spending was funded by central Government (for instance via the Homelessness Prevention Grant) and what, if any, was the net cost to you (to be funded by the Council Tax.)

   • £44,784.72 (all funded from Housing Benefit Payments)

2. Your total spending on temporary accommodation for homeless households in the financial year 2023/24. Please advise how much of this spending was funded by central Government (for instance via the Homelessness Prevention Grant) and what, if any, was the net cost to you (to be funded by the Council Tax.)

   • £55,558.19 (all funded from Housing Benefit Payments)

3. Your total spending on hotels as temporary accommodation for homeless households in the financial year 2022/23.
   • £105,309.97

4. Your total spending on hotels as temporary accommodation for homeless households in the financial year 2023/24.
   • £106,082.21